Chelsea inform on their official website that highly-rated Nigerian defender Fikayo Tomori will be spending the whole of the 2018-2019 season on loan at Championship club Derby County.
The Blues also announced via the press release that Tomori is now tied to the Blues until June 30, 2021 after penning a contract extension.
Tomori is the sixth player to be signed by manager Frank Lampard this summer and joins another Chelsea loanee Mason Mount at Pride Park.
In his first words as a Derby County player, Tomori told Rams TV: ''First of all, I am happy to be here – hopefully we can have a good year.
''I’m here to learn, I’m here to play games and I’m here to improve. I want to make the fans happy this year.
''I had some good years under Jody at Chelsea. We won the FA Youth Cup a few times, the youth Champions League, but overall, he’s just a good guy.''
The former Chelsea Academy Player of the Year has played nonstop at
Chelsea for more than eleven years, though he has enjoyed loan spells
at Brighton and Hull City.
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January 16, 2026
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